Castro dealing with scandal-laden HUD

By Bill Lambrecht, Washington Bureau

September 26, 2015Updated: September 26, 2015 7:39pm

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HUD Secretary Julián Castro is making annual ethics training mandatory for his 8,000 employees starting next month, along with instructions on whistle-blowing. “We want a department where employees feel comfortable bringing to light wrongdoing,” he said.

HUD Secretary Julián Castro is making annual ethics training...

WASHINGTON — When the inspector general for the Department of Housing and Urban Development scolded the federal agency this summer for letting 25,000 “over income” families reside in public housing — more than 1,000 of them in Texas — HUD initially fought back.

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